Every so often one'll find flags in various forms in American magazines: music mags, women's mags, photo mags, fashion mags, and political mags. Americans love it. In these mags, there are also abnormal frequency of the word America or American: American Fashion, Sex in America, America's sweetheart; while hardly ever other country or contitent's name. For the average American, America = the world, and that's how Americans like it, and the capitalistic consummeristic America sells by it.
Left: Paper mag, showing a pretty girl clad in red-white striped sundress with a button-pin of peace-sign on flag. (notable is her airplane-runway chest. US magazines usually sport chesty women.)
Right: 2001-09-11 issue of Rolling Stone, showing a US flag brooch. Brooch is just called pin in US, and is a American thing.
Left: Brat Britney Spears on Vogue.
Right: Actress Lisa Marie (b1968) on Gear
Left: Jaime Bergman (b1975), Playboy's Playmate, January 1999, on the cover of Gear Mag, semi-baring her breast in a tattered shirt of US Flag imprint.
Right: Sex in the City queen Sarah Jessica Parker (b1965).
Left: fitness model Torrie Wilson (b1975) on a wrestling mag. “Made in America!” Her beautiful bare butt makes friend with a US flag. Note that care has been taken so that she doesn't actually sit on it.
Right: Christian war monger George W Bush versus presidential candidate John Kerry on Time mag, 2004-10-18, cover illustration by Daniel Adel.
Pop songstress Jessica Simpson (b1980) on GQ mag, 2005-07. Note the tag line: “GOD, THIS IS A GREAT COUNTRY” and “Jessica Simpson and 75 Other Reasons To Love America”.
Bruce Springsteen on Rolling Stone. The date of this cover may be one of 1985-10-10, 1986-02-27, 1987-02-26. See also Born in the USA lyrics.
Hustler magazine cover, 2002-07.